Education: Parochial Puzzle

Roman Catholics have the fastest-growing educational system in the
country. Catholic grade and high schools have nearly quadrupled in 50
years to 4,700,100 studentsone out of every eight U.S. school
children. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First
Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, forbids direct aid
to church schools. Meanwhile. Catholic parents (as well as Protestant
and Jewish parents who send their children to church schools) are taxed
for public schools while their own growing schools need money. What
should the U.S. do?

Last week four experts grappled with the question in a new Fund for...